February 2024

PBI calls for respect for international law, protection of human rights defenders and an immediate cease-fire

Contact: governance@peacebrigades.org PBI calls for respect for international law, protection of human rights defenders and an immediate cease-fire Peace Brigades International (PBI), an organization that seeks to create space for peace and participate in the protection of human rights, shares the words of the UN Secretary General that “only a Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada webinar on Gitxsan and Gitanyow Resistance to Colonial Mega Projects, March 5

We know that settler colonialism aims to eliminate Indigeneity, either through incorporating Indigenous people into colonial structures, or forcing access to territory through injunctions and RCMP CIRG-sponsored terror. And at the same time, Indigenous people continue to live their laws, practice collective governance structures that entwine communities with each other Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Alaska Summit Massacre trial of soldiers who killed six Mayan K’iche’ men

PBI-Guatemala has posted: “An hour after the reading of the sentence on Caso de la Masacre de la Cumbre de Alaska the room was filled with the plaintiffs, relatives and authorities of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán and the Ixil people.” Reuters reports: “A Guatemalan court on Wednesday [February 28] Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies walk by Q’eqchi’ communities who demand OXEC be removed as member of COMUDE

PBI-Guatemala has posted: “[On February 26], #PBI accompanies the peaceful walk carried out by the Q’eqchi’ communities of Santa María Cahabón. Around 300 people mobilized towards the municipality to demand the removal of the accreditation of the hydroelectric company OXEC as a member of the Municipal Development Council (COMUDE), and Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula as it peacefully resists Canadian mining company

The PBI-Guatemala Project has posted: “Yesterday [February 25], #PBI accompanies the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula in its eighth anniversary, which took place in a natural water birth. During the act, claims were made in defense of water and land through indigenous authorities and through their spirituality.” Poster: Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

MLA Olsen asks the BC Minister of Public Safety if he still has confidence in the controversial RCMP C-IRG unit

On Thursday February 22, there was this exchange in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in Victoria between Green Party MLA Adam Olsen and Mike Farnworth, the Minister of Public Safety. Olsen refers to testimony that emerged last month at an ongoing abuse of process court hearing in Smithers, BC Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada co-organizes webinar encouraging applications to be a PBI-Colombia field volunteer

On February 27, PBI-Colombia, PBI-UK and PBI-Canada collaborated on a webinar to help encourage people to be a field volunteer with PBI-Colombia. They are currently seeking new volunteers with an application deadline of March 2. For more about that, click here. This webinar featured former PBI-Colombia field volunteers Marie Zeller Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

CEHPRODEC executive director Donald Hernández: “We go to the territories accompanied by organizations such as PBI”

PBI-Honduras has accompanied the Honduran Center for the Promotion of Community Development (CEHPRODEC) since May 2014. Spanish RTVE radio-television recently interviewed Donald Hernández, the executive director of CEHPRODEC. Below is an excerpt from that full interview. QUESTION: Have you ever suffered threats? ANSWER: Yes, many. The activism in which we Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Colombia accompanies the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó at the commemoration of the Massacre of Mulatos and La Resbalosa

PBI-Colombia has posted: “PBI Colombia accompanied the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in the community work and the commemoration of the Massacre of Mulatos and La Resbalosa, perpetrated on February 21, 2005, by the Army. Hearings on this event are currently underway at the JEP with case 04.” Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Conavigua at commemoration of Indigenous Maya victims of the internal armed conflict

On February 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies in the framework of the Day of the Dignification of the Victims of the IAC [internal armed conflict] commemorated every February 25 by the delivery of the Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) in the year 1999, Conavigua Guatemala invited to Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago